as ~\ A Visit in the Night; OR, A SERVICE TO THE STATE J CHAPTER V.--{Cont'd) For upwards of en hour and a half Carne remained standing in the shadow of the opposite houses, watching the Jeffrey's residence. The lights in the lower room had by this time disappeared and within ten minutes that on the first floor followed suit. Being convinced, in his own mind, that the inmates were safely settled for the night, he left the scene of his vigil, and, walk- ing to the corner of the street, hailed a hansom and was driven home. On reaching No. 1, Belver- ton Street. he found a letter lying on the hall table addressed to Kli- mo. It was in a woman's hand- writing, and it did not take him long to guess that it was from Mra. Jeffreys. He opened it and read as tollows: "Bellamer Street, "Thursday Evening "Dear Mr. Klimo, "T am sending this to you to tell you that my worst suspicions have been realized. The two men whose coming I so dreaded, have arrived, and have taken up their abode with us. For my father's sake I dare not turn them out, and to-night 1 have heard from my husband to say that he will be home on Satur- day next. What is to be done? If something does not happen soon, they will commence their dastardly business in England, and then God help us all. My only hope is in Him and you. "Yours gratefully, "EILEEN JEFFREYS."' Carne folded up the letter with a grave face, and then let himself in- to Porchester House and went to bed to think out his plan of action. Next morning he was up betimes, and by the breakfast hour had made up his mind as to what he was go- ing to do. He had also writtea and dispatched a note to the girl who was depending so much upon him. In it he told her to come and see him without fail that morning. His meal finished, he went to his dressing-room and attired himself in Klimo's clothes, and shortly af- ter ten o'clock entered the detec- tive's house. Half-an-hour later have stepped outside the house door." "Very good, sir. And as to your- self ?? "'T shall join you at the house at ten o'clock, or thereabouts. We must, if possible, catch them at their supper." London was half through its plea- sures that night, when a tall, mili- tary-looking man, muffled in a large cloak, stepped into a hansom out- side Porchester House, Park Lane, and drove off in the direction of Oxford Street. Though the busi- ness which was taking him out would have presented sufficient dangers to have deterred many men who consider themselves not want- ing in pluck, it did not in the least oppress Simon Carne; on the con- trary, it seemed to afford him no small amount of satisfaction. He whistled a tune to himself as he drove along the lamplit thorough- fares, and smiled as sweetly as a lover thinking of his mistress when he reviewed the plot he had so cun- ningly contrived. He felt a glow of virtue as he re- membered that he was undertak- ing the business in order to pro- mote another's happiness, but at the same time reflected that, if fate were willing to pay him fifty thou- sand pounds for his generosity, well, it was so much the better for him. Reaching Mudie's Library, his coachman drove by the way of Hart Street into 3loomsbury Square, and later on turned into Bellamer Street. At the corner he stopped his driy- er and gave him some instructions in a low voice. Having done so. he walked along the pavement as far as No. 14, where he came to a standstill. As on the last occasion that he had surveyed the house, there were lights in three of the windows, and from this illumina- tion he argued that his men were at home. Without hesitation he went up the steps and rang the bell. Before he could have counted fifty it was opened by Mrs. Jeffreys her- self, who looked suspiciously at the person she saw before her. It was evident that in the tall, well-made man with iron-grey moustache and 'he Mrs. Jeffreys was ushered into his presence. As he greeted her he no- ticed that she looked pale and wan. It was evident she had spent a sleepless night. "Sit down," he said, "and tell me what has happened since last fw you." "The most terrible thing of all has happened,"' she answered. "As I told you in my note, the men have reached England, and are now liv- ing in our house. You can imagine what a shock their arrival was to me. I did not know what to do. For my father's sake I could not refuse them admittance, and yet I knew that I had no right to take them in during my husband's ab- 'sence. Be that as it may, they are there now, and to-morrow night George returns. If he discovers their identity, and suspects their _ errand, he will hand them over to the police without a second thought, and then we shall be disgraced for- ever, Oh, Mr. Klimo, you promis- el to help me, can you not do so? Heaven knows how badly I need your aid." "You shall have it. Now listen to my instructions. You will go home and watch these men. During the afternoon they will probably go out, and the instant they do so, you must admit three of my servants and place them in some room where their presence will not be suspect- ed by our enemies, A friend, who will hand you my card, will call lat- tr on, and as he will take command, ou must do your best to help him s every possible way." You need have no fear of my not doing that," she said. "And I will be grateful to you till my dying clay.'"' "Well, wo'll see. bye."' After she had left him, Klimo re- turned to Porchester House and sent for Belton. He was out, it ap- peared, but within half-an-hour he returned and entered his master's presence. 'Have you discovered the bank?' asked Carne. "Yes, sir, I have," said Belton. "But not till I was walked off my legs. The men are as suspicious as wild rabbits, and they dodged and played about so, that I began to think they'd get away from me al- together. The bank is the 'United Kingdom,' Oxford Street branch. "That's right. Now what about the uniforms?' "They're quite ready, sir, hel- mets, tunics, belts and trousers complete." _ 'Well then, have them packed as I told you yesterday, and ready to proceed to Bellamer Street with the men, the instant we get the infor- a that the folk we are after Now, good- ' dark hair, she did not recognize her elderly acquaintance, Klimo, the detective. "Are you Mrs. Jeffreys?" asked the new-comer, in a low voice. "T am,"' she answered. "Pray what can I do for you?' "T was told by a friend to give you this card." He thereupon handed to her a card on which was written the one word "Klimo." She glanced at it, and, as if that magic name were sufficient to settle doubt, beckoned to him to follow her. Having softly closed the door she led him down the passage until she arrived at a door on her right hand. This she opened and signed to him to enter. It was a room that was half office and half library. "T am to understand that you come from Mr. Klimo?" she said, trembling under the intensity of her emotion. "What am I to do?' "First, be as calm as you can. Then tell me where the men are with whom I have to deal." "They are having their supper in the dining-room. They went out soon after luncheon, and only re- turned an hour ago." "Very good. Now, if you will con- duct me upstairs, I shall be glad to see if your father is well enough to sign a document I have brought with me. Nothing can be done un- til T have arranged that." "Tf you will come with me I will take you to him. But we must go quietly, for the men are so suspici- ous that they send for me to know the meaning of every sound. I was dreadfully afraid your ring would bring them out into the hall." Leading the way up the stairs she conducted him to a room on the first floor, the door of which she opened carefully. On entering, Carne found himself in a well-fur- nished bedroom. <A bed stood in the centre of the room, and on this lay a man. In the dim light, for the gas was turned down till it showed scarcely a glimmer,' he looked more like a skeleton than a human being. A long white beard lay upon the coverlet, his hair was of the same color, and the pallor of his skin more than matched both. That he was conscious was shown by the question he addressed to his daughter as they entered. "What is it, Hileen?" he asked faintly. "Who is this gentleman, and why does he come to see me?' "He is a friend, father," she an- swered. "One who has come to save us from these wicked men." "God bless you, sir," said the invalid, and as he spoke he made as if he would shake him by the hand. Carne, however, checked him. "Do not move or -- speak,". he said, '"'but try and pull yourself to- gether sufficiently to sign this! paper? <, "What is the document?" | "Tt is something without which I can take no sort of action. My instructions are to do nothing un- til you have signed it. You need not be afraid; it will not hurt you. Come, sir, there is no time to be wasted. If these rascals are to be got out of England our scheme must be carried out to-night." "To do that I will sign anything. I trust your honor for its contents. Give me a pen and ink." His daughter supported him in her arms, while Carne dipped a pen. in the bottle of ink he had brought with him and placed it in the tre- mulous fitfgers. Then, the paper| being supported on a book, the old, man laboriously traced \his signa-_ ture at the place indicated. When he had done so he fell back upoa the pillow completely exhausted. | Carne blotted it carefully, then folded the paper up, placed it in his pocked and announced himself ready for work. The clock upon the mantlepiece showed him that it was a quarter to eleven, so that if he intended to act that night he must do so quickly. Bidding the invalid rest happy in the knowledge that his safety was assured, he beckoned the daughter to him. "Go downstairs," he said in a whisper, "and make sure that the men are still in the dining room." She did as he ordered her, and in a few moments returned with the information that they had fin- ished their supper and had an- nounced their intention of going to bed. "In that case we must hurry,"' said Carne. "Where are my men concealed ?" "In the room at the end of that passage," was the girl's reply. "T will go to them. In the mean- time you must return to the study downstairs, where we will join you in five minutes' time. Just before we enter the room in which they are sitting, one of my men will ring the front-door bell. You must en- deavor to make the fellows inside believe that you are trying to pre- vent us gaining admittance. We shall arrest you, and then deal with them. Do you understand?' "Perfectly."' She slipped away, and Carne hastened to the room at the end of the passage. He scratched with his finger-nail upon the door, and a second later it was opened by a sergeant of police. On stepping in- side he found two constables and an inspector awaiting him. "Is all prepared, Belton?' he inquired. 'Quite prepared, sir." "'Then come along, and step as softly as you can." As he spoke he took from his pocket a couple of papers, and led the way along the corridor and down the stairs. With infinite care they made their way along the hall until they reached the dining-room door, where Mrs. Jeffreys joined them. Then the street bell ruag loudly, and the man who had open- ed the front door a couple of inzhes shut it with a bang. Without fur- ther hesitation Carne called upon the woman to stand aside, while Belton threw open the Jining-room door. "T will tell you, sir. you ard -nis- taken," cried the terrified women. "T am the best judge of that," said Carne roughly, and then, turn- ing to Belton, he added: "Let one of your men take charge of this woman."' On hearing them enter the two men they were in search had risen from the chairs they had been occu- pying on either side of the fire, and stood side by side upon the hearth- rug, staring at the intruders as if they did not know what to do. "James Maguire and Patrick Wake Rooney," said Carne, ap- proaching the two men, and pre- senting the papers he held in his hand, "I have here. warrants, and arrest you both on a charge of be- ing concerned ina Fenian plot against the well-being of Her Ma- jesty's Government. I should ad- vise you to submit quietly. The house is surrounded, constables are posted at all the doors, and there is not the slightest chance of es- cape." The men seemed too thunder- struck to do anything, and submit- ted quietly to the process of hand- cuffing. When they had been se- cured, Carne turned to the inspec- tor and said: "With regard to the other man who is ill upstairs, Septimus O'Grady, you had better post a man at his door." "Very good, sir," (To be continued.) % CARE OF CHICKEN YARD. The poultry yard should be plow- ed or spaded up every two weeks or so. By exposing the under soil to the sun it keeps pure and the chicks enjoy it. Ever notice that immedi- ately the chicken yard is spaded up the birds begin to make dust holes. How can they do this on hard ground? "How do you fare?' Dutch. That's - Toronto is second largest city in Canada, ' => LETTERS OF A SON IN THE MAKING 1} TO HIS DAD. f --By REX McEVOY y <A (Mr. McEvoy will write for this paper a series of letters from the west. They will appear from time to time un- der the above heading, and will give a picture of the great Canadian west from the standpoint of a young Ontario man going out there to make hisway. These let- ters should be full of intevest for every Ontario father, | No. 6. Vancouver, Sept. 2ist, 1911. My Dear Dad:-- Here I am at the end of my journey, though not as far west as I intend to go before returning east. It is only four and a half hours by boat from here to Victoria, the capital of the Province, so I shall try and get there for a day or two before starting for home. Uncle John met me at the station when I got in and took me right up to their home in Fairview. for breakfast. Aunty and the cousins were there, of course, and gave me a great welcome. They certain- ly have been good to me, and they have given me the best bedroom in the house, with an outlook over the city to the mountains beyond. I didn't see anything of the Fraser Valley coming here, as we passed through it at night. I am told that it is one of the best parts of the trip, so I shall ar- range to go home by the Toronto Ex- press, which leaves the C. P. R. station here at nine o'clock in the morning and goes through the valley by daylight. By taking this train I shall have seen all the mountains, as what I shall miss on this train I shall have seen coming out on the Imperial Limited. I like Vancouver fine, what I have seen of it. The business portion of the town is well paved and has some fine; solid buildings. It has more prosperous stores for its size than any place I have. been in, and they have the art of making their windows attractive down to the last word. There are one or two hills and steep streets in the down-town sec- tion, but for the most part it is level. Quite a large portion of the up-town part is cut off from down-town by False Creek, an arm of the sea which reacheg inland for over two miles. At high tide there is twelve feet of water in the creek, which is crossed by three long bridges. At low tide there is practically no water in the creek at all, and the mud flats are exposed, with only puddles of water here and there. The first time I saw it; {t looked quite like a harbor, for there were small boats with rafts of logs ly- ing close to the sawmills, which line the banks of False Creek. The mills all have their piles of lumber characteristic cf this lumber country, and all have great furnaces, as big as houses, where the waste from the mills ig burned. Flames are constantly leaping out of the open tops of these furnaces, which are fed from a sort of spout which projects over them. There is a constant stream cf SOUND SLEEP Can Easily be Secured, "Up to 2 years ago," a woman writes, "I was in the habit of using both tea and coffee regularly. "T found that my health was be- ginning to fail, strange nervous at- tacks would come suddenly upon me, making me tremble so exces- sively that I could not do my work while they lasted; my sleep left me and I passed long nights in restless discomfort. I was filled with a nervous dread as to the future. "A friend suggested that pos- sibly tea and coffee were to blame and I decided to give them up, and in casting about for a hot table bev- erage, which I felt was an absolute necessity, I was led by good fortune to try Postum. "For more than a year I have used it three times a day and ex- pect, so much good has it done me, to continue its use during the rest of my life. "Soon after beginning the use of Postum, I found, to my surprise, that, instead of tossing on a sleep- less bed through the long, dreary night, I dropped into a sound, dreamless sleep the moment my head touched the pillow. "Then I suddenly realized that all my nervousness had left me, and my appetite, which had fallen off before, had all at once been re- stored so that I ate my food with a keen relish. 'All the nervous dread has gone. I walk a mile and a half each way to my work every day and enjoy it. I find an interest in everything that goes on about me that makes life a pleasure. All this I owe to leav- ing off tea and coffee and the use of Postum, for I have taken no medi- cine.'"? Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason," and it is ax- slained in the little book, 'The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above fatter? A new one avpears from tima to time. Thev are renuine, true, and full of human Interest. ED. 3 Sovw 40-11 Bonps larly received character. tions. Safe investments having broad markets are available for any individual desir- ous of placing surplus funds to obtain a satisfactory return of interesi--4\/ per cent. to 6 per cent. There is every advantage in buying standard bonds which are readily mar- ketable and on which income is regu- This company offers Bonds of such The prospective investor may be thoroughly informed and may personally investigate these securities by having our Statistical Department sub- mit the results of our own investiga- Lists of Bonds for special purposes furnished. Dommon Securmes CORPORATION-LIMITED TORONTO ..MONTREAL.LONDON.ENG | oe a splinters and lath-like pieces of wood fal- ling from the spout to feed the flames. To the south of Vancouver on quite a hill are the residential districts known as Grandview, Fairview, and Shaughnessy Heights. From the latter place you get a magnificent view all over Vancouver, and beyond Burrard Inlet, the harbor, to North Vancouver and the mountains. We have heard of the Yellow Peril in the East, and you realize what is meant by it when you get to Vancouver, where there are 11,000 Asiatics out of a total po- pulation of 110,000. Chinarmen are here in great numbers. They are employed quite a lot as house servants. Often when going through a good residential district, I have seen a Chinaman come out of the kitchen door on to the side verandah, busy on some domestic duty. They go about, some of them, as char- women do in the East, and they get $2 a day for such work. They are liked better than the Japanese, as they seem to be better workers. The Jap boy knows the minimum work he can do And the maximum wage he can get, so they say. The Chinese are great market gardeners, too, and all the vegetable peddlers I have seen out here have been Chinese, Some of them are very well off, and own fine horses and waggons, while there are many who carry their goods in baskets Swung one at each end of a bamboo pole, just as you see in pictures of Chinese coolies. Of course there are mer- chant Chinese here who are very well off. Uncle John took me to dinner with one of them who goes home to China every year. He came to Vancouver twenty- eight years ago, and was here when the place was called Gastown. He has taken advantage of his opportunities, and must be worth a great- amount. Another section of the yellow peril {3 formed by our fellow subjects the Hin- doos. These you see everywhere, and they are easily distinguishable by their turbans, which are of all colors, some pink, some red, some white, some yel- low--I don't know what color I have not seen, There were ten of these chaps in the trolley coming home from New West- minster yesterday. They seemed quite at home and were laughing and jabber- ing away among themselves the whole way back to Vancouver. I am told that the different colored turbans indicate dif. ferent castes, and that the men work for the most part in the saw mills. They are very swarthy, and for the most part are black-bearded men. Coming home from New Westminster 1 saw something that would surprise any- one from the East. Passing Hastings townsite, I saw the way they clear the land here when they are in a hurry. They have a powerful donkey engine, and by a system of pulleys they hitch cables to the trees as they stand and drag them holus-bolus to a pile in the centre of the spot they are clearing. If the tree is too large it is cut into logs, and the logs are hauled on to the pile. I saw some logs two to three feet through. Some of the piles are forty to fifty feet high. When the pile is as high as they are going to make it they sturt another, and so get all the timber into piles. These piles are then set on fire. There was one of these piles on Shaughnessy heights, only a few blocks from Uncle John's house, and this was set on fire one night. The spectacle was immense. The flames in a solid sheet leaped about forty feet into the air, and the glare illumined the whole district, Good-bye for the present, JIM. P. S.--I have opened this to explain that I have carried this letter around in my pocket for a week. You see, I wrote it on election day, and in the excitement down town that night I completely for- got to post it, and it has been in my 4 pocket ever since.--J. od Free Sample of Cuticura Ointment Cured Baby's Skin Humor. That the Cuticura treatment is the most successful and economical for torturing, disfiguring affections of the skin and scalp could receive no more striking proof than the re- markable statement made by Wil- liam Whyle, 325 Tudor road, Lei- cester, England. "A sample of Cuticura Ointment cured my baby's face. She had the measles when one year old, and it left her with a very scurfy forehead and face. It was very irritating and would bleed when she scratched herself. I took her to the doctor and he gave her some ointment. I tried it and it did no good. One night I said to my wife : 'How would it be to send for a sample of Cuti- cure ointment? I did so, used it and my baby's face grew better. She has now a lovely skin, and I can safely say that Cuticura cured her.'"' Although Outicura Soap and Ointment are sold throughout the world, those wishing to try for themselves without cost their ef- ficacy in the treatment of eczema, rashes, itchings, burnings, scalings and crustings, from infancy to age, may send to the Potter Drug and Chemical Corp., Dept. 2W, Boston, U.S.A., for a liberal trial of each, with 32-page Cuticura Book, an au- thority on skin and scalp affections. Kk. NOT HE. The "Angel" (about to give beg- gar a dime--Poor man! And are you married ? Beggar--Pardon me, madam! D'ye think I'd be 'relyn' on total strangers for support if I had a wife ? "You seem to be rather fond of Swiss cheese,"? remarked the dys- peptic. 'TI always thought cheese with holes in it was indigestible.'"' "The holes are," rejoined the man who had just finished his fourth sandwich, "but I never eat the holes." ------p THE BEST PRESERVES DURING THE PRESERVING SEASON IS DAILY WINNING FRESH LAURELS, Its uniform high quality commends itself to all good housekeepers, Extra Granulated Sugar "BEST FRUIT, BEST SUGAR, BRAT PRESERVES," Ask your Grocer for Redpath Extra Granuated Sugar | The Canada Sugar Refining Co., Limited, Montreal Established in 1854 by John Redpath, 'quececeeeqoetooseg #%.3 matt On the Farm POTASH FOR WHEAT. There is an impression among the | farmers generally that a fertilizer shouldbe especially rich in pot- 'ash. One cause of this is no doubt from the marked effect that wood ashes has on most soils, writes Mr. A. J. Legg. A liberal. application of wood ashes shows an improvement in cro production on almost any soil. This is usually attributed to the potash contained {in the ashes. An analysis of the ashes usually shows from four 0 five times as much lime as potash in the ashes, since wood ashes usually contain from five to eight per cent, of pot- ash, 35 to 40 per cent. lime and about two per cent. of phosphorie acid. The marked effect that wood ash- es has on almost all plants of the leguminous family seems to indicate that the lime in the ashes has more influence in making the ashes valu- able as a fertilizer than the potash does Last year our fertilizer dealer put in a bag of fertilizer containing ten per cent. phosphorio acid and six per cent. of potash at the samo price as the goods I was buying, which was a fourteen per cent. available phosphoric acid goods on condition that I would use it on wheat and compare them, sida by side. I put the bag of fertilizer which contained the potash in my grain drill, and when it ran out I con- tinued with the superphosphate con- taining fourteen per cent. available phosphorie acid without changing the quantity per acre. There was no perceptible differ- ence in the growth of the wheat during the growing season. 'The wheat ripened by June 25th. Thera was no difference in the time of ripening. I could see little or any difference between the wheat with and that without the potash I showed the wheat to several farmers and all agreed that if there was any difference between the two plats that it was in favor of the wheat where the fourteen per cent. phosphoric acid without potash was applied. I have not threshed and cannot give exact results, but it is a plain case that the $3.00 per ton which I would have had to pay for the potash would have been a clear loss so far as results on the wheat crop were concerned. Both kinds of fertilizer were used so that both plats extended over a dark loamy soil with some sand at one end and a rather stiff yellowish clay soil at the other end. It is usually considered that a loamy soil is not as well supplied with potash as a clay soil, yet the potash applied did not show any improvement over the other ferti- lizer in the loamy soil. NOTES OF THE SHEEP FOLD. Ensilage is not considered good for sheep and if it is fed at all it should be fed very sparingly and at intervals of two or three days. Turnips, carrots and sugar beets make fine feed for sheep and no matter how small the flock is every farmer should raise some roots for the winter feeding. Sheep do not drink much water, but what little there is drunk must be absolutely clean, Some people assert that sheep do not drink water at all, but it may be because they do not have. a chance to get clean water and must subsist on the dew on the grass. NOTES OF THE DATRY. The busy bacteria gets busy 'n the milk almost at the moment it is drawn from the cow. , To squelch the bacteria and pre- vent them from souring the milk it must be cooled immediately after milking. Bacteria do not thrive in the cold but in heat only. If you keep your milk below 40 degrees the bacteria will have small chance. The dairy cannot be managed just right without the use of a thermometer, and it must be a good one, no 25 cent affair. Green fodder at the tail end of the summer is relished by cows as ice cream is relished by the school children. NR manic: cease GREETINGS, Tow Other Nations Say 'How-de You Do?" "How is your stomach? you eaten your rice?"- Chinese. "Be under the guard of God." That's the Ottoman's. "How do you carry yourself?' That's French. "May thy shbodaw never grow less.' nat's Persian, Tank God, how are That's Arabian. 'How do you find yoursvlf ?'* That's German. 'How do you perspire?' That's Egyptain, "How do you bye pn?" Russ!*2. ik @ "Go wi fod, ge i Spanish. Peaks "How do Italian, NATIONAT, Have That's you 0" That's That's That' you stand?'